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Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience

updated: 
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 1:48am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas in twenty-first century. Urbanization is understood as the mass movement of human population from rural to urban areas. The trend of urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented pace, especially in developing countries of the world. Now considered as an irreversible phenomenon, the imperative of urbanization necessitates a rethinking of how we imagine cities and rural areas of tomorrow to provide a meaningful and sustainable lifeworld. The challenges that come with such a dramatic shift are multifold and complex. It involves envisioning a way of life that is dignified, a society that is sustainable and equitable. 

The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - 7:16pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 12, 2025

The Creative Psyche and Arts-Based Research Conference

June 14-15, 2025

 

Where: Association of Jungian Analysts Centre, London

and online

Proposal Deadline: May 12, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Susan Rowland

 Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/the-creative-psyche/

 

Call for Papers:

 

 

Philip K. Dick and the Transfiguration of American Science Fiction

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:52pm
S. Hartwell Johnson / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

This panel examines the works and influence of American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. We are interested in proposals about the novels and short stories written by PKD, the many film and television adaptations of those works, the influence of his works and ideas on media of various kinds, and, more generally, the influence of Philiip K. Dick on other science fiction authors. This panel welcomes proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.

 

Submit abstract here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19694

Call for film, television, novel, and theoretical texts reviews

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:52pm
FEMSPEC
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

FEMSPEC announces an open call for theoretical and creative speculative texts, as well as film and television reviews.

Here are texts that we have available:

STRANGELOVE COUNTRY by Harlan Wilson

THE BLACK UTOPIANS by Aaron Robertson

THE FEMALE HYPNOTIST: STORIES from the VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN ERAS, ed. Donald K. Hartman

KINSHIP IN THE FICTION OF N.K. JEMISON, edited by Berit Astrom & Jenny Bonnevier

DISCOVERING CLASSIC FANTASY FICTION, edited by Darrel Schweitzer

CRAWDADDY, film by Kassandra Voss

We will consider other 2024-2025 publications and releases and will consider longer, comparative reviews of important fantasy, sci-fi, and horror films released since 2020; please inquire.

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries; PAMLA (Nov. 20-23, 2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:50pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be held from Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23, 2025, at the InterContinental Hotel, San Francisco, California.

Exploring The Murderbot Diaries:

Since the publication of All Systems Red in 2017, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series has come to include seven books, three related short stories, and an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Alexander Skarsgard. The series has won four Hugo Awards, two Nebulas, and four Locus Awards, with Wells often turning down subsequent award nominations.

CfP Variations 28 – Environment, Science, Memory

updated: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 1:19pm
Redaktion Variations
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Call for Papers: Variations 28 – Environment, Science, Memory

The balsam fir tree also remembers. If caterpillars or moose browse its needles, the nibbling assault lodges itself in the chemical makeup of the tree, in a manner analogous to the changes in a chickadee’s nerve cells after a near miss with a predator. The tree’s subsequent growth is more heavily defended by unpalatable resins, like a bird turned jumpy by its bad experience with a hawk. The fir also remembers air temperatures dating back nearly a year, a memory that helps the tree to know when to winterize its cells. […]

Roots and twigs have memories of light, gravity, heat, and minerals. (Haskell 2017: 37)

Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology

updated: 
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 1:05pm
Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for our Winter issue. We are particularly interested in research on:

  • Cultural responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis (fine arts, film, popular visual culture, activism)
  • Feminist New Wave Cinema

  • Trans Cinema

  • Textiles, fiber arts, weaving screens  

  • The Culture and Politics of Gaming
  • Health Humanities

  • Graphic Medicine

  • Social Media  

We also welcome exhibition reviews and book reviews (1k-5k words). 

MMLA Permanent Section - Short Story **deadline extended**

updated: 
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 2:16pm
The Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

Presentation Format: In-Person Only

 

Taking inspiration from the convention theme, this year’s short story panel asks presenters to consider how the unique properties of the form contribute to its ability to offer hope, particularly the hope of human connection in an inhuman time.

 

Panelists might explore how formal considerations inform the short story’s relationship with hope:

 

PAMLA 2025: Care and Cure: Critical Approaches to Medical Humanities in the Modern World

updated: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:09pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

In all medical practices, two goals stand out: to cure and to care. In a vernacular context, care is discursive, relational, and mutual, while cure is linear, utilitarian, and quantifiable. In his book Care and Cure: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine, Jacob Stegenga iterates on two sides of the care-cure conundrum: “[...] when an intervention mitigates harm then it provides some care, and when an intervention mitigates abnormal biological functioning
then it goes some way toward cure.”

Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media

updated: 
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 10:48am
The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The 2025 ELLAK International Conference
“Rethinking English Studies in the Age of New Media”

 

Organized by The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)

Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

December 18-20, 2025

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Ted Underwood, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

International Pynchon Week 2026

updated: 
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 3:41pm
Sascha Pöhlmann, Burak Sezer, TU Dortmund University, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

International Pynchon Week 2026

June 15-19, 2026

TU Dortmund University, Germany

 

 “Consider coal and steel. There is a place where they meet.” (Gravity’s Rainbow)

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 2:08am
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Online 25-26 September 2025

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

Call for Papers: Fafnir 2/2025

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:45pm
Finnish Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

CfP: Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research - Issue 2/2025ISSN: 2342-2009  Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2025. Research into any and all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres is welcome from a range of disciplines. Please see below for details.  Fafnir is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. It is a completely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR).

“Fiction, Time, and the Quantum World” - PAMLA 2025, Nov. 20-23

updated: 
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 3:10pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association - Nov. 20-23, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 15, 2025

The 122nd annual PAMLA Conference will be held between November 20-23, 2025 at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This special response responds directly to PAMLA's 2025 conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” seeking presentations on fictions that present and respond to physical phenomena that defy understanding, specifically phenomena represented in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics.     

Introducing the Privileged Logics Blog: A New Hub for Crucial Conversations

updated: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 7:04am
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

In February 2024, the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University hosted the Privileged Logics 2024 Conference that examined how privilege shapes STEM research, research ethics, and the very definitions of research quality and research access. The National Science Foundation-funded conference sparked enriching exchanges and fresh perspectives — conversations we want to continue. 

Do Animals Hope?

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:54am
Midwestern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 14, 2025

MMLA 2025 Animal Studies Panel

“Do Animals Hope?” 

 

Although many books have been written on hope for non-human animals, their collective or individual survival, this session invites proposals on hope by non-human animals, or representations of such hope. Many different approaches are welcome—literary critical, ethnographic (human or animal), environmental studies, affect studies, thought experiments. Please submit a 1-2 page abstract to Lucinda Cole (lcol@illinois.edu) by April 14, 2025.

 

 

Virtual session

Caleidoscopio journal, series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: “In Media-Making:  Start-on-and-go-over-Media”

updated: 
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 4:53am
Joana Bicacro, Lusófona University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Caleidoscopio invites you to submit papers for its series 2, vol. 1, no. 1: under the topic “In Media-Making:  Start-on-and-go-over-Media”

 

Archives, while carrying out the operation of the gaze, function like a mirror: they point to a spectral exteriority. The archive is of the order of the phantasmagorical and, by definition, they are phantasmatic. This approach points out to what Harun Farocki’s stressed as the definition of a phantom or operational image, images that are built from a non-human perspective, although they call-in human agency.

Why should humans be witnessing and/or scrutinizing images productions? Is that still a need? Are there any ethical or aesthetical motives or meanings to it?

MLA 2026: Plural Cosmologies

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 10:16am
2026 Modern Language Association Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 21, 2025

In her artist statement for Along the River of Spacetime (2020), a virtual reality “activation” of Anishinaabe star knowledge, scholar, artist, and video game designer Elizabeth LaPensée (Irish, Métis, Anishinaabe) described the ways in which Anishinaabe cosmologies anticipated a series of experiments carried out by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's most advanced particle accelerator.

The Body, Anatomy, and Aesthetics: Special Issue: Art & the Public Sphere

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:24am
Linda Roland Danil
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

In a 2022 article, one of a number of related works, and drawing on the work of Didier Deleule and François Guéry (2014)– the late art theorist Marina Vishmidt critiqued the manner in which an analysis of ‘bodies’ seemed to be overly focused on the register of vulnerability, or the post-structuralist, discursive, or psychoanalytic dimensions, thus relegating bodies excessively to the realm of the abstract, to the exclusion of the concrete. Anatomy, with regards to both its aesthetic and scientific purposes, also has abstract and concrete dimensions – as innovative recent works analyzing anatomy within its broader social and historical contexts demonstrate.

Literature and Social Justice

updated: 
Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 8:03am
Lehigh English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Conference: March 20, 2026

Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA

 

Contact email: slb322@lehigh.edu

 

MMLA 2025 CFP: Finding Hope in Science and Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:21am
Jeffrey Squires / Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Science and Fiction Panel: Finding Hope in Science and Fiction

Chaired by Nesrine Affara (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- Biology) and Jeffrey Squires (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar- English)

Contact Email: squires@cmu.edu

 


 

CFP deadline 18 April 2025 

Tolkien Society Seminar 2025 – Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments

updated: 
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 8:21am
Tolkien Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 28, 2025

The Tolkien Society is excited to partner with the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic and Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. The seminar will be co-run by Will Sherwood (The Tolkien Society’s Education Secretary), Clare Moore (University of Glasgow), and Journee Cotton (New Mexico Military Institute).

CfP: Democratisation of Space conference, Norrköping, Sweden. 26-28 November 2025.

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Linköping Space Studies Institute @ Linköping Universitetet
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 19, 2025

We invite submissions for the upcoming Linköping Space Studies Institute international conference 26-28November 2025: Campus Norrköping at Linköping University, Sweden.

 

Democratisation of Space: The decline of the public and rise of the private? 

Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Isabella Maria Engberg, Justus Liebig University Giessen
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship

Symposium at the GCSC/GGK, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 12, 35394 Giessen, Germany

4th – 6th of June, 2025


 

When thinking of writing as a practice, one might imagine a lone author with shoulders bent over a desk, frantically looking over messy handwritten notes and typing away on a laptop. What ideas are behind this image, and how do practices of writing actually look like?

MLA 2026: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:32pm
MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the need for us as scholars to re-assess our history and culture through an ecological lens also steadily increases. Where is seventeenth-century ecocriticism now, and where is it going?

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